Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John B. Carman, professor of Comparative Religion and director of the Center for the Study of World Religions said yesterday, "Rogers is held in great esteem both by members of the faculty and by students." He added that he believes Rogers' departure will prove a great loss to the Harvard community...
Such a history has tended to dam age the self-esteem of TV weathercasters. Sometimes they even suspect themselves of fraud. Willard Scott has been heard to say, with an undercurrent of melancholy: "A trained gorilla could do what I do." In fact, even if some of today's forecasters are merely local station Ken dolls rolled out to mouth data gleaned from WE 6-1212, many are knowledgeable meteorologists who provide a valuable public service. Gordon Barnes of WDVM-TV in Washington, D.C., operates his own independent weather service. The best in the business is Dr. Frank Field...
Nolan, extraordinarily qualified, has been denied promotion in a department that, peculiarly, has no tenured women. Her area of expertise is German economic and social history. Her tenure offers prove that her professional colleagues hold her work in high esteem...
...concerned with your geopolitical strategic considerations. But we are prepared to pay any price and bear any burden in order to defend our own democratic and beneficial civilization. Our families are not averse to suffering in order to preserve the conditions they have grown to love and esteem. Give us grenades, mortars, anti-aircraft gimcracks and opera glasses--we will fight the Russian tanks and jets to the death. Give us the big guns so that we can achieve our legitimate aspirations for self-termination...
...schools yield to economic pressures, the council predicts, the considerable esteem in which the public still holds higher education will decline-especially if the 3,000 American colleges begin competing noisily for students and funds. To make matters worse, the council confirms, "fraud, error and abuse" are on the increase among both students and schools. Defaults on low-interest federally insured student loans have totaled $668 million since 1967. And a report by HEW'S inspector general says the incidence of fraud and abuse in the $3.6 billion spent on five major student-financial-aid programs...